Sunday, 25 April 2010

I am waiting for more images and quotes from Juantxo Cruz – the Head of Infographics at El Mundo newspaper in Madrid

I'm afraid that this is another example of wonderful showcase visual journalism from his team

I think i'm write is thinking the poster graphic shows the entire history of every building on the "Great Way" – the ornate and upmarket shopping street in Spain's capital city

Designed in the mid 19th century to connect the Calle de Alcalá with the Plaza de España, the project required many buildings in the city to be demolished, earning it the name of "an axe blow on the map"

But apart from the two loss making businesses holding each other up, like two drunks trying to find their way home, the use of graphics by the UK press and that of the Spanish, could have not been more different

None are necessarily better or worse pound for pound, content for content, but the offerings by the Guardian and from the Daily Telegraph show that colourful and interesting financial infographics is good business

On one hand we have the basic chart, and in the other multimedia data visualisation

And here, in print, we can see the benefits of both disciplines in very different journalistic strategies

Thursday, 8 April 2010

All the nationals gave it large on Tuesday, massive editorials, mega party-leader pics and huge amounts of infographics

The Times advertised an election map "Free inside" on their masthead

We at the Daily Telegraph produced the UK's favorite election tool – the swingometer – what seats Cameron must win to swing the election in favor of the Conservatives

A huge amount most likely not enough to win an outright majority

Along with swingometers' and general election good election coverage, the Telegraph also interactively helps you how to vote

In the Independent, they produced the last elections results in today's new boundary format

Why?

We are surely used to the Independent producing much more interesting editorial, although one can imagine that most commissioning editors think that the election map of the UK is key to any election...

IT IS NOT

It is a visual lie

For the 2005 election result, while working for the Observer, CathLevett, CiaranHghes and I produced an proportionate example of how the electorate voted (mainly concentrated urban areas in red) and what the constitutional (mainly blue for rural reasons) map compared

The result being a very blue constituency map of the UK, but the majority of votes going to the red of Labour

Please - for any visual reporting for this election, I urge many to look at current graphics from the Guardian, most certainly on Tuesday